Tohoku and Haiti Case study

Question 1

Haiti : magnitude

Answer 1

7.0

Question 2

Haiti : P Deaths

Answer 2

230,000

Question 3

Haiti : P vulnerability

Answer 3

V.poor healthcare, sanitation, literacy rates, substandard housing.

Question 4

Haiti : P Homeless

Answer 4

1.3 million

Question 5

Haiti : P Infrastructure destruction

Answer 5

50+ hospitals, 1300+ schools, transport + communication links and main prison destroyed

Question 6

Haiti : S unemployment

Answer 6

1/5 lost job due to building collapse

Question 7

Haiti : S disease

Answer 7

Too many bodies to bury => bodies left in street => cholera spread

Question 8

Haiti : IR EU aid

Answer 8

$330 million given by EU

Question 9

Haiti : IR Homelessness

Answer 9

810,000 placed in aid camps. 1 million tarpaulin shelters provided.

Question 10

Haiti : IR Community rescue

Answer 10

Due to transport links (airport + port destroyed) help to long time to arrive. Communities had to save each other.

Question 11

Haiti : IR Government

Answer 11

US re-established a working government as presidential palace destroyed

Question 12

Haiti : LTR Homelessness

Answer 12

1 million still homeless year after

Question 13

Haiti : LTR Schooling

Answer 13

Temporary schools created with new teacher trainees

Question 14

Haiti : LTR Port-au-Prince reconstruction

Answer 14

Reduced in size and stricter building codes

Question 15

Tohoku : P deaths

Answer 15

15,000 deaths (majority tsunami)

Question 16

Tohoku : Magnitude

Answer 16

9.0

Question 17

Tohoku : Focus

Answer 17

V.shallow (19km)

Question 18

Tohoku : P Electricity and water

Answer 18

4.4 million without power, 1.5 million without water

Question 19

Tohoku : P Trains

Answer 19

1100 sections of train track damaged, but only 4 trains derailed due to early warning system

Question 20

Tohoku : P Costal areas (earthquake)

Answer 20

All costal areas 130km from epicentre destroyed

Question 21

Tohoku : S Tsunami size & speed

Answer 21

40m height, 10 mins to reach shore

Question 22

Tohoku : S Tsunami infrastructure damage

Answer 22

$300 billion lost + factories had to shut production

Question 23

Tohoku : S Fukushima Daichi power plant

Answer 23

Nuclear meltdown, massive amounts of radiation emitted, exclusion zone still in place

Question 24

Tohoku : IR JSDF Planes

Answer 24

Within 30 minutes Japanese Self Defence Force aircraft in air and doing reconissence

Question 25

Tohoku : IR JSDF Land

Answer 25

Teams on ground had cleared debris within 2 days

Question 26

Tohoku : IR bullet trains

Answer 26

Automatically stopped due to early warning system

Question 27

Tohoku : IR Dead

Answer 27

Buried dead in mass graves => no spread of disease

Question 28

Tohoku : LTR Nuclear Power

Answer 28

All 55 nuclear power plants shut down

Question 29

Tohoku : LTR Factory production

Answer 29

Many companies (I.E. Toyota) did not rebuild and instead relocated abroad

Question 30

Tohoku : LTR Ports

Answer 30

Reopened by end of march (took place on 11th of march, 2011)

Question 31

Tohoku : LTR Railway

Answer 31

Fully reopened by September (took place on 11th of march, 2011)